Interesting dustup. A Wikipedia person went in a backdoor on the NPG site and "scraped" fullsize images and posted them on Wikipedia as public domain. NPG brought in the lawyers to argue that in Britain the 2-D non-copyrightable precedent hasn't been argued.
http://www.peoplepoints.co.nz/2009/07/wikimedia-commons-national-portrait.html http://londonist.com/2009/07/national_portrait_gallery_to_sue_wi.php http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Dcoetzee/NPG_legal_threat Website security: >From the NPG cease & desist letter: As you know, the images from our client?s website that you have copied were made available from our client?s website using "Zoomify" software. As you know, Zoomify is an application that is used to publish photographic images in such a way that an entire high resolution image is never made available to a user although high-resolution extracts or "tiles" are made available one-at-a-time. Our client used the Zoomify technology to protect our client?s copyright in the high resolution images. NPG's policy/price sheet for web use: http://www.npg.org.uk/business/images/use-on-web.php Deborah Wythe Brooklyn Museum deborahwythe at hotmail.com Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail?. See how. _________________________________________________________________ Bing? brings you health information from trusted sources. Try it now. http://www.bing.com/search?q=pet+allergy&form=MHEINA&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TXT_MHEINA_Health_Health_PetAllergy_1x1
